W hen someone wins the lottery, especially if it's a life-changing sum like $1 million or more, most winners won't hesitate to rush to lottery headquarters and claim their prize.

“Hey, someone won at that little bodega!” Willis first said when he found out someone in his area had won the haul, per the release. He said that his girlfriend then prompted him to check his own ticket from the bodega, at which point he discovered he was in possession of the winning ticket.

A new study revealed the U.S. states that have the highest chances of winning the Powerball — and sadly, none of the tri-state area was included in the top five.

Someone in Massachusetts won $100,000 on Friday from a winning lottery ticket they bought at a shop called "Winner's Corner," located in this town.

The mastermind behind the lottery stunt turned out to be former London banker-turned bookmaker Bernard Marantelli, aided by Zeljko Ranogajec, known as 'The Joker'

The Massachusetts State Lottery said in a news release that Sylvester Semedo, of Weymouth, won big when he played the same set of numbers three times on one Mass Cash ticket.

Here are all the winning lottery numbers from the evening of Friday, July 4, 2025, including the highly anticipated $60 million Lotto Max draw. Thousands of Canadians tried their luck, hoping to hit it big.

In the United States, Wisconsin was the only state to register a winning ticket that matched five numbers for the July 12 drawing.

The winning ticket was sold at the Country Trading Post & Restaurant in Chicopee. Additionally, someone claimed a $100,000 prize on Monday from a winning “$15,000,000 Colossal Millions” ticket they bought at Lindy’s General Store in Hanover.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A weekly paycheck worth thousands of dollars would be a big win for most New Yorkers, and the state’s lottery system offers just that. Top prizes for three “for life” games range in value from $1,000 a week for life to $10,000 a week for life, and all three games have top prizes still in circulation.

A lottery player “didn’t feel all that lucky” — then he won a huge prize. “ Life has changed ,” the winner told the South Carolina Education Lottery in a July 10 news release. “I’m trying to stay calm.”